Derived forms

Word origin of 'register'

C14: from Medieval Latin registrum, from Latin regerere to transcribe, from re- + gerere to bear

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Word forms: registers, registering, registered

Definitions

1. countable noun

A register is an official list or record of people or things. ⇒ ...registers of births, deaths and marriages. ⇒ He signed the register at the hotel. ⇒ She calls the register for her class of thirty 12 year olds.

2. verb

If you register to do something, you put your name on an official list, in order to be able to do that thing or to receive a service. [V] ⇒ Have you come to register at the school? [V to-inf] ⇒ Thousands lined up to register to vote. [V + for] ⇒ Many students register for these courses to widen skills for use in their current job. [V-ed] ⇒ About 26 million people are not registered with a dentist. [V-ed] ⇒ ...registered voters.

3. verb

If you register something, such as the name of a person who has just died or information about something you own, you have these facts recorded on an official list. [V n] ⇒ In order to register a car in Japan, the owner must have somewhere to park it. [V n] ⇒ We registered his birth. [V n] ⇒ The house is registered in her name, not her husband's. [V-ed] ⇒ ...a registered charity.

4. ergative verb & verb

When something registerson a scale or measuring instrument, it shows on the scale or instrument. You can alsosay that something registers a certain amount or levelon a scale or measuring instrument. [V + on] ⇒ It will only register on sophisticated X-ray equipment. [V n] ⇒ The earthquake registered 5.3 points on the Richter scale. [V n] ⇒ The scales registered a gain of 1.3 kilograms.

5. verb

If you register your feelings or opinions about something, you do something that makes them clear to other people. [V n] ⇒ Voters wish to register their dissatisfaction with the ruling party. [V n] ⇒ Workers stopped work to register their protest.

6. verb

If a feeling registerson someone's face, their expression shows clearly that they have that feeling. [V + on] ⇒ Surprise again registered on Rodney's face.

7. ergative verb & verb

If a piece of information does not register or if you do not register it, you do not really pay attention to it, and so you do not remember it or react to it. [V] ⇒ What I said sometimes didn't register in her brain. [V n] ⇒ The sound was so familiar that she didn't register it. [Also V that]

8. countable noun

If you sing or play something in a high or lowregister, you sing, or play it using high or low notes. If you say something in a high or low register, you say it in a high or low voice.

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Word forms: (regular plural) registers

Definitions

noun

(Accounting: Financial statements) A register is an official list of people or things. ⇒ He transferred information from the payroll register to the employees' earnings records. ⇒ You can enter a transaction directly into the register. ⇒ A register is an official list of people or things.

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Definitions

verb

(Mechanical engineering: Manufacturing and assembly) If a mechanical part registers, it lines up with another.

COLLOCATIONS:

~ with ⇒ When the tube is turned so that its hole registers with a second tube, fluid can flow from one tube to the other. ⇒ A port in the journal registers with a similar port in the bearing. ⇒ If a mechanical part registers, it lines up with another.

Example sentences containing 'register'

All cultures register the primaryemotions with the same facial expressions.Stewart, Michael COMPULSIONBut if they existed, they were too swift for her consciousness to register.Fraser, Anthea THE GOSPEL MAKERSIt would be easy enough to find out their address - the hotel register , for a start.Fraser, Anthea DEATH SPEAKS SOFTLYWithout a thank you, Daisy Raymond shoved the money into the register drawer.J. A. Jance HOUR OF THE HUNTER